Ted Warren's ruminations on teaching, playing, writing, and listening. And also pizza.

Monday, April 11, 2011

5 Beat Idea 2 ways

Hey,

This is a simple idea I stumbled upon today.

It's a little lick around the drums that's 5 notes long.

Like so:

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As you can see, I put the idea into 4/4 to make it a bit more user friendly.

Here's a video of me playing it while (sort of) singing "A Train".

I also tried making the lick into a 15 note grouping so instead of it being a 5 note grouping that goes over the bar, in the bridge of the next example (again I'm thinking of A Train as I play) I'm playing 15 notes that are equidistant in the space of two bars of 4/4. Check it out, it has a feeling of slowing down in the bridge.

Whew! This is going to be another post that my Mom tells me she doesn't understand. Sorry!

2 comments:

Very cool melodic approach to rhythm and time. Kenny Werner plays these groupings in particular on his "Stella" from a solo piano album called Meditations. I wonder what his piano solo would sound like on the drums?